{"id":12776,"date":"2020-04-04T21:07:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T01:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/?p=12776"},"modified":"2020-04-04T21:19:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T01:19:33","slug":"gbenga-akinnage-vintage-furniture-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/gbenga-akinnage-vintage-furniture-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Actor Gbenga Akinnagbe Uses \u201cAfrican Prints\u201dTo Rebrand Vintage Furniture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"afric-529222514\" class=\"afric-before-content afric-entity-placement\"><amp-ad width=300 height=250\r\n    style=\"text-align:center;\" type=\"doubleclick\"\r\n    data-slot=\"\/21718337565\/AMP-Banner\">\r\n  <div placeholder><\/div>\r\n  <div fallback><\/div>\r\n<\/amp-ad>\r\n<\/div><p>Gbenga Akinnage, an actor on HBO&#8217;s &#8220;The Deuce,&#8221; revealed to The New York Times Style Magazine that he has a side business that not many people know about. When he&#8217;s not on set shooting, he spends his off-hours reupholstering chairs for his vintage furniture brand called Enitan Vintage.<\/p>\n<p>As the Times&#8217; Style Magazine popped into his brownstone in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, they described what his living room\/stockroom looked like and how he gives these chairs a new life.<\/p><div id=\"afric-3471457607\" class=\"afric-inbody afric-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><!-- \/21718337565\/AFW300 -->\r\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1609524218907-0' style='width: 300px; height: 250px;'>\r\n  <script>\r\n    googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1609524218907-0'); });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;He restores baroque settees and wingbacks of Western provenance,&#8221; they write. He &#8220;then re\u2011dresses them primarily using West African Dutch wax fabrics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They also write that while he was looking for some property, he found a lone chair in a basement that he decided to take home. When took a trip to South Africa to film the movie &#8220;Detour,&#8221; he found the perfect purple fabric to put on his tattered chair. This hobby became a part of his life, then transformed into a business. Anytime he was in a new location, he was looking for fabrics to start a new project. He&#8217;s picked up chairs from all over the world from right in the states-\u00a0 Oklahoma, to be specific &#8211; to Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Akinnage told the Times, &#8220;I\u2019m Nigerian, so everything is just shy of being a business already.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Times also spoke about the deeper meaning of what Akinnage is doing. &#8220;Dutch wax fabrics have been accepted as a symbol of African culture since at least the 1960s, but they are, in fact, the product of a long history of colonialism,&#8221; they write. &#8220;By covering antique British, Danish and French chairs in these materials, Akinnagbe is reappropriating that appropriation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"afric-2593487679\" class=\"afric-after-content afric-entity-placement\"><amp-ad width=300 height=250\r\n    style=\"text-align:center;\" type=\"doubleclick\"\r\n    data-slot=\"\/21718337565\/AMP-bottom\">\r\n  <div placeholder><\/div>\r\n  <div fallback><\/div>\r\n<\/amp-ad><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gbenga Akinnage, an actor on HBO&#8217;s &#8220;The Deuce,&#8221; revealed to The New York Times Style Magazine that he has a side business that not many people know about. 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